Although the role of Prince Charles in The Crown seems to have catapulted Josh O'Connor's star that much further, he was initially quite reluctant. "I think a bit of me felt that, beyond Prince Charles being a very rich and posh man, what's the get-in? Where's the juice to him? Where's the stuff?" he told The Guardian.

"I didn't want to do the audition. It didn't excite me. But eventually they gave me this scene to read." The scene had Charles compare himself to the titular character in Saul Bellow's novel Dangling Man. "That book is about a guy waiting to be drafted to go to war. And he wants to be drafted because it will give his life meaning. This was Charles' conundrum, too. And I thought, s–t, yeah, that's the juice."

With his tenure on The Crown complete, O'Connor is moving on to other exciting projects. In 2021, he's due to have two new projects out. One is a Romeo & Juliet TV movie where he will play Romeo, due out in the spring (per Playbill). The other is a post-World War I romance. He's being well paid for these projects, too, with an estimated net worth of $2 million as of 2020 (per Top Planet Info).